Lately, I have been having some troubles in the first hour or so of my MTT's. I have read in many places that in the beginning, "tight is right" for the beginning allowing for the maniacs to bust out, and then you can start playing poker....

However I have been bleeding off chips in the beginning limping hands 22-TT, AJ. And Raising with JJ-AA, AQ, AK....then when I miss my stack suffers when sometimes I will try and take down a pot and get reraised and am forced to let it go.....

Is this not tight enough in the beginning? should I tighten down to like QQ-AA, AK in the first hour? I had success in my first few MTT's but I dont really remember what I was doing, probably just getting lucky.

So can someone help me out with this "tight is right" phase....Thanks.